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ICZM coasts
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- 1What does ICZM stand for?Intergrated Coastal Zone Management
- 2What are the different factors ICZM take into account?-Economic impacts on business of coastal recession and flooding
-Economic risk to buildings and infrastructure.
-The impact of coastal flooding on local environments - 3Why is ICZM considered as wholistic?A managed approach to coastal erosion management which takes into account socio-economic and environmental variables
- 4Why is ICZM successful?-Promotes careful consideration of the natural environment in infrastructure planning
-Takes available resources into account to be more cost affective - 5What is a SMP?Shoreline Management Plans are individual coastal management plans tayloer to a given area of the coast
- 6How many sediment cells does the UK have?11
- 7What are the 4 main SMP's?-No Active intervention
-Advance the Line
-Hold The Line
-Strategic realignment - 8What is involved in Advance the Line SMP?Using physical engineering processes to defend the existing shoreline
- 9What's involved in the Strategic Realignment SMP?Allowing natural processes to reach natural equilibrium at a managed point
- 10What is a CBA and how is it used?-Cost Benefit Analysis
-Determines the value of a coastline to the economy, the population and the environment to decide what SMP should be used - 11What is a EIA-Environmental impact analysis assesses the environmental impact using hard engineering defenses will have on the environment
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- A-level Geography (Coasts) Flashcards on ICZM coasts, created by Jack Rowe on 13/06/2020.
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- Jack Rowe · Jun 2020
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- Jun 13, 2020
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